Demolins ranked mentalities into a global hierarchy with Anglo-Saxons on top

Evidence

This division of the world ‘as though into two’, moreover, was a division not only between epochs, but between mentalities. As much as there was a difference between savage people and ourselves, Demolins wrote, a moral or mental gulf had opened between those whose minds were formed by the social sciences and the rest. The resulting condition, he concluded at the end of the book, was ‘a moral inferiority; of the Red-Skin in relation to the Oriental; of the Oriental in relation to the Westerner; and of the Latin and German peoples of the West, in relation to the Anglo-Saxons’. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 358

Categorization

• XREF: Ranks with Orientalist hierarchies in Said’s Orientalism and the civilizational ladder narratives of the same period.